Re: grep crashes machine
In article <cistron.NEBBLNPDIMNCGABLPAGKMEBFCHAA.pernegger@chello.at>,
Christian Pernegger <pernegger@chello.at> wrote:
>I just stumbled upon the following. If I do
>
># cd /
># grep -r * stuff
>
>it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The
>last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device
>files, but maybe it's just me...
Well, if grep opens /dev/port, /dev/mem and /dev/kmem it is mucking
around in your system memory and doing lots of direct i/o to your
hardware, so it's not really strange that that hangs the machine ..
Just Don't Do That ...
Mike.
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